Ancient Egypt had the world’s first documented pregnancy test over 3,500 years ago. The method is written in the Berlin Papyrus (c. 1350 BC) and the Carlsberg Papyrus: a woman would urinate daily on separate bags of wheat and barley seeds for several days. • If the wheat grew → she was having a girl • If the barley grew → she was having a boy • If neither sprouted → she wasn’t pregnant It wasn’t magic. Pregnancy urine is loaded with elevated estrogen, hCG, and other hormones that act like natura
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In ancient Egypt, pregnancy tests were surprisingly advanced for their time! One common method involved women urinating on barley and wheat seeds. If the seeds sprouted, it was believed the woman was pregnant. Additionally, the type of grain that sprouted first was thought to indicate the baby’s gender—barley for a boy and wheat for a girl. Modern science has shown that increased estrogen levels in a pregnant woman’s urine can indeed stimulate seed growth, offering some validation to this ancien
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